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homeTable of ContentsMedical Words
Understanding Your Prostate
What Your Test Results Mean
Treatment Choices
Intro
Watchful Wating
Surgery
Radiation
Comparing Treatment Choices
Comparing Side Effects
Newer Treatments
Things to Ask Your Doctor
After Your Treatment
Education and Support Groups
A Choice and A Journey
 
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Treatment Choices : Radiation

Other things to think about

  • With external beam radiation, you may feel weak and tired during the weeks treatment is being given.
  • Internal seed radiation has not been used as long as external beam radiation, so the chances of cure and side effects are less well known.
  • If radiation does not cure your cancer, surgery may be more difficult because of scarring around the prostate from radiation.

To see pictures of how radiation works,
please see page 5.


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“Learning all the new words to talk about possible radiation treatment was a challenge. The doctors were patient with me, and helped me really understand what the treatment would be like."